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> Dear PIC List:
>
> My application is strictly I2C, one master, many slaves
> 100 (+/-) and slow data rates.

Yowza!! 100 slaves?  Well, I can give you one recommendation right
away.  IIRC the maximum recommended bus length is 10cm.  If you have
that many devices attached, you're going to need some repeater ICs.
There's a 5-port I2C hub made by Philips that may be helpful to you.

> After researching the volumes of online information,
> I'm no closer to choosing a PIC mu-C than I was three
> months ago!
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Ideally, the chip will be supported by a MicroChip (R)
> development environment and programmer.

Any microchip MCU that has I2C support should fit that bill.  I'd say
for ease of coding, you can go with an 18F part, though if you know
you don't need all that power, you can drop to a 16F part.  If all
you're doing with the master is operating slaves, then you should be
able to drop to a 16F876 or similar, unless code size or RAM are
limiting factors.

Well, that's all I can come up with.  Hope it helps.

- --Brendan

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